16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
former course, and they did feel her heel as
she gathered way, running with a far more
lively motion, while all the mingled sounds of
the wind in the rigging and the water streaming
along her side took on the urgent note of
a ship chasing once more.
Almost immediately after the Surprise had
settled into her accustomed pace, shouldering
the strange-coloured sea high and wide, the
hands were piped to dinner, and in the usual
Bedlam of cries and banging mess-kids that
accompanied the ceremony, Stephen returned
to the quarterdeck, where the Captain was
standing at the windward rail, gazing steadily
out to the eastward: he felt Stephen's presence
and called him over. 'I have never seen anything
like it,' he said, nodding at the sea and
the sky.
'It is much thicker now than it was when I
went below,' said Stephen. 'And now an umber